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    Tahiti (English: /təˈhiːti/; Tahitian [taˈhiti]; French pronunciation: [ta.iˈti]) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in...
    79 KB (8,217 words) - 19:05, 17 September 2024
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    archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean that includes the major islands of Tahiti, Moʻorea, Raiatea, Bora Bora and Huahine. Politically, they are part of...
    17 KB (1,789 words) - 08:13, 14 August 2024
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    Tahiti Village is a Tahitian-themed timeshare resort located on 27 acres (11 ha) of land at 7200 South Las Vegas Boulevard, south of the Las Vegas Strip...
    12 KB (1,049 words) - 14:20, 28 December 2023
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    Pahi (ship) (category Tahiti)
    Pahi were the traditional double-hulled sailing watercraft of Tahiti. They were large, two masted, and rigged with crab claw sails. Taonui, Rāwiri (22...
    1 KB (93 words) - 18:35, 24 April 2024
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    Among its 121 islands and atolls, 75 were inhabited at the 2017 census. Tahiti, which is in the Society Islands group, is the most populous island, being...
    92 KB (8,318 words) - 06:11, 19 September 2024
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    Mutiny on the Bounty (category History of Tahiti)
    settled on Tahiti or on Pitcairn Island. Bounty had left England in 1787 on a mission to collect and transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West...
    89 KB (11,392 words) - 04:11, 18 September 2024
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    Charles (1901). Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin. Gauguin, Paul (2011) [1921]. Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals. Translated by Van Wyck Brooks...
    140 KB (17,430 words) - 16:51, 11 September 2024
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    the defeated foe), was the Queen of Tahiti between 1827 and 1877. She was the fourth monarch of the Kingdom of Tahiti. Pōmare was the daughter of Pōmare...
    18 KB (1,632 words) - 10:25, 25 April 2024
  • competition of the World Surf League held at the break Teahupo'o in Taiarapu, Tahiti. The Billabong Pro Teahupoo was founded in 1999 and has been recognized...
    15 KB (783 words) - 05:00, 29 August 2024
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    king (Te Ariʻi-nui-o-Tahiti) of Tahiti, Moʻorea and its dependencies. On 15 November 1815, he proclaimed himself King of Tahiti and Moʻorea in the name...
    23 KB (2,238 words) - 16:06, 7 August 2024
  • The Pōmare dynasty was the reigning family of the Kingdom of Tahiti between the unification of the islands by Pōmare I in 1788 and Pōmare V's cession of...
    12 KB (1,180 words) - 05:00, 4 September 2024
  • Tipairua were large traditional sailing canoes of Tahiti that were of stately bearing and significance. They were often used for deep sea voyages, had...
    1 KB (89 words) - 18:18, 16 May 2024
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    Papeete (redirect from Papeete, Tahiti)
    in the Pacific Ocean. The commune of Papeete is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, of which Papeete...
    33 KB (2,514 words) - 21:59, 16 August 2024
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    remote in the world. It lies about 1,370 kilometres (850 mi) northeast of Tahiti and about 4,800 kilometres (3,000 mi) west of Mexico (the nearest continental...
    55 KB (5,854 words) - 21:39, 6 September 2024
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    to join the confederation, including Samoa (in 1986), Vanuatu (in 1988), Tahiti (in 1990), Tonga and the Cook Islands (both in 1994) and American Samoa...
    103 KB (4,854 words) - 05:24, 23 September 2024
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    Franco-Tahitian War (category History of Tahiti)
    and the Kingdom of Tahiti and its allies in the South Pacific archipelago of the Society Islands in modern-day French Polynesia. Tahiti was converted to...
    25 KB (2,646 words) - 09:58, 31 August 2024
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    naturalist Daniel Solander recorded the transit of Venus from the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. During a transit, Venus appears...
    15 KB (1,926 words) - 14:15, 10 June 2024
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    The Tahiti monarch (Pomarea nigra), or Tahiti flycatcher, is a rare species of bird in the monarch flycatcher family. It is endemic to Tahiti in French...
    10 KB (1,055 words) - 21:05, 22 May 2024
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    Vahine, baptized Taaroamaiturai (c. 1790 – 1858), became Queen consort of Tahiti when she married King Pōmare II and later, she ruled as Queen of Huahine...
    67 KB (7,776 words) - 03:44, 30 August 2024
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    Annexation of the Leeward Islands by France (category History of Tahiti)
    protectorate over the Kingdom of Tahiti in the Franco-Tahitian War. The three Leeward Islands kingdoms to the northwest of Tahiti were ensured independence by...
    57 KB (6,323 words) - 05:20, 19 February 2024
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